McDannel v. Black

Thomas S. Scupholm was the sole executor named in the last will and testament of Frank S. Beckton, deceased, and as such administered the estate from April 15, 1929, until November 30, 1932, when he resigned at the request of the probate court which had taken under advisement a petition for his removal. ITe later filed four accounts covering successive periods of his administration, with which he presented an unsworn statement of claim for executor’s fees in the sum of $1,250. Objections were filed by a distributee and by a creditor. ■ The final account, with the exception of the claim for…